Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.

Assistive Technology for Cognition ( ATC ) is the use of technology ( usually high tech ) to augment and assistive cognitive processes such as attention, memory, self-regulation, navigation, emotion recognition and management, planning, and sequencing activity.

Assistive technology and sports is an area of technology design that is growing.

Assistive technology is the array of new devices created to enable sports enthusiasts who have disabilities to play.

Assistive technology may be used in adaptive sports, where an existing sport is modified to enable players with a disability to participate ; or, assistive technology may be used to invent completely new sports with athletes with disabilities exclusively in mind.

Assistive technology devices can be simple, or " low-tech ", or they may use highly advanced technology, with some even using computers.

Assistive technology for sports may also be simple, or advanced.

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Assistive technology has undergone dramatic changes over the past 20 years ; the availability and quality of the technology has improved greatly.

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Assistive technology for people with visual impairment, reading difficulties and for people whose first language is not English is also available.

Alternatively, Assistive Technology may attempt to improve the ergonomics of the devices themselves such as Dvorak and other alternative layouts, which offer more ergonomic layouts of the keys.

Assistive devices-technical tools and devices such as alphabet boards, text telephones, or text-to-speech conversion software used to aid individuals who have communication disorders perform actions, tasks, and activities.

Assistive Technology is a generic term for devices and modifications ( for a person or within a society ) that help overcome or remove a disability.

** Common zero-rated items include basic groceries, prescription drugs, inward / outbound transportation and medical devices ( GST / HST Memoranda Series ME-04-02-9801-E 4. 2 Medical and Assistive Devices ).

While the design approach is attractive to a general hearing aid user, open-fit devices can by their design have problems when connected to Assistive Listening Devices ( ALD's ).

It is largely a software concern ; when software, hardware, or a combination of hardware and software, is used to enable use of a computer by a person with a disability or impairment, this is known as Assistive Technology.

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Assistive computer interface technologies, such as Dasher in combination with eye tracking, may be used to help patients communicate.

Assistive technology is the creation of a new device that assists a person in completing a task that would otherwise be impossible.

Assistive technology is used at Landmark College to facilitate academic skill development and to enable students to fully access course materials.

According to the Assistive Technology Act of 1988, assistive technology refers to " any item, piece of equipment, or product that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

The recent field of Assistive Technology for Cognition concerns the development of technologies to augment human cognition.

Tests and measures include, but are not limited to, those that assess: a. Aerobic Capacity / Endurance, b. Anthropometric Characteristics, c. Arousal, Attention, and Cognition, d. Assistive and Adaptive Devices, e. Circulation ( Arterial, Venous, Lymphatic ), f. Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Integrity, g. Environmental, Home, and Work ( Job / School / Play ) Barriers, h. Ergonomics and Body Mechanics, i. Gait, Locomotion, and Balance, j. Integumentary Integrity, k. Joint Integrity and Mobility, l. Motor Function ( Motor Control and Motor Learning ), m. Muscle Performance ( including Strength, Power, and Endurance ), n. Neuromotor Development and Sensory Integration, o. Orthotic, Protective, and Supportive Devices, p. Pain, q. Posture, r. Prosthetic Requirements, s. Range of Motion ( including Muscle Length ), t. Reflex Integrity, u. Self-Care and Home Management ( including activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living ), v. Sensory Integrity, w. Ventilation and Respiration / Gas Exchange, x.

MSAA is designed to help Assistive Technology ( AT ) products interact with standard and custom user interface ( UI ) elements of an application ( or the operating system ), as well as to access, identify, and manipulate an application's UI elements.

* Cyberdyne Inc. ( Japanese company ), a Japanese company which sells a Powered exoskeleton called HAL 5 ( Hybrid Assistive Limb )

Founded in 1996, Assistive Media of Ann Arbor, Michigan was the first organization to produce and deliver spoken-word recordings of written journalistic and literary works via the Internet to serve people with visual impairments.

Lekotek, Swedish for " play library " is an international program to lend Assistive Technology, toys and expertise to disabled children.

Assistive technology and adaptive technology have a key role in developing the means for people with disabilities to live more independently, and to more fully participate in mainstream society.

Gnopernicus is a free GNOME desktop application that provides Assistive Technologies ( AT ) for blind and visually impaired users.

Additionally, in 2010, Liberty University opened the Osborne Assistive Learning Technology Center in the A. Pierre Guillermin Library, which is a learning and testing center for special needs students.

Assistive technology, computers and Internet may decrease sense of isolation for homebound elderly and disabled persons.

In the province of Ontario, the price of hearing aids is partially reimbursed through the Assistive Devices Program of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, up to $ 500 for each hearing aid, every three years.

The Learning Commons provides a central location for resources provided by many departments across campus including Circulations / Reserves / Interlibrary Loan, International Programs Office, Learning Resource Center, Writing Center, Reference and Research Assistance, Assistive Technologies Center, Office of Information Technologies Help Desk, and Learning Commons and Technical Support desk.

* Speech & Language Processing for Assistive Technologies: SIGSLPAT

These include the installation of 14 additional handicapped parking stalls, hand rails on both sides of the pedestrian ramp leading to the floor level seating, handicapped accessible drinking fountains, an Assistive Listening System to aid the hearing impaired, conversion of restroom facilities, dressing rooms and bathroom fixtures for the handicapped, and increased informational signage.

Assistive technology is technology, or enhancements to technology, or methods of using technology, that make it possible for disabled persons to use technology ( or to use it easily ) that they were formerly unable to use ( or to use with only some difficulty ).

Connecting to Learn: Educational and Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities.

* Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Vol 86, January 2005: Assistive Devices for Balance and Mobility Retrieved 2012-03-03

* FAST ( Foundation for Assistive Technology ).